Miriam Axel-Lute

There is a lot to be processed and mourned, celebrated and condemned about what has happened in Baltimore recently, starting with the death of Freddie Gray (although, of course, that […]

  I'm glad to see I'm not the only one thinking about the limits of the “30 percent of your income” housing affordability definition. This Washington City Paper article gets […]

The story of neighborhood populations changing with waves of migrants is a classic part of the history of American cities. We are, as most school children have heard, a nation […]

So this story started off sounding so promising. An affordable housing complex put solar panels on its roof! Also, it's affordable “community solar,” meaning you can invest in a piece […]

Shelterforce talks with John Henneberger of the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service, one of the 2014 MacArthur Fellows.

Chattanooga, Tenn., has done some impressive things over the past few decades, being forward looking first in terms of investing in going green, and then in offering the fastest Internet service […]

I go to a lot of conferences. I enjoy them, generally, as places to get to talk to all the great people doing great work in the field. But also […]

NIMBY fights are a big obstacle to allowing lower-income households access to opportunity. Truth is, voucher holders don’t increase crime in a neighborhood.

How many times have you seen the phrase “women- and minority-owned businesses” or seen an organization list a single number to account for all the “women- and minority-owned businesses” supported? […]

It’s time for more coordination between the community development field and veterans groups.

Property taxes were set up at a time when cities were regional centers of wealth. Times have changed. We need to another look at how we’re funding cities.

Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much, by Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir. Times Books, 2013